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Italian School, 19th Century
BRIG WHIG BOSTON Francis H. Rogers
ENTERING & LEAVING the PORT of
PALERMO. Unsigned, titled below.
Watercolor and gouache on paper, 19 5/8
x 26 in., in a later molded wood frame,
the backing paper bears the Goodspeed’s
Bookshop framer’s label. Condition: Foxing
through central area and sparsely so in the
upper sky, minor paint loss l.l. water, paper
slightly rippled.
Provenance: Family descent of the original
owner of the painting, a small paper label
affixed to the backing paper is inscribed “The
Whig belonged to my father’s (Joseph Morril)
grandfather; another typewritten note affixed
to the backing paper reads, “...This picture
belonged to my grandmother and was her
ship. The best picture I have. FMO.”

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Literature: This painting is illustrated in The
Sailing Ships of New England, 1607-19078,
Volume 1, by John Robinson and George
Francis Dow (Marine Research Society, Salem,
Massachusetts), p. 301; a similar painting
by the same unknown artist is illustrated
in The Marine Paintings and Drawings in
the Peabody Museum, by Marion Vernon
Brewington, Dorothy E.R. Brewington (The
Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts), p.
377, plate 1468.
$4,000-6,000